From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: follow_page()
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:11:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111041111.185c29e5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419353D5.2080902@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Kill it..?
Think so. We'd need to review all callers to make sure that they really
are marking pages dirty after modifying them. Right now someone may just
be feeling lucky.
(looks at access_process_vm, wonders why it isn't doing flush_dcache_page).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 10:40 follow_page() Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 10:56 ` follow_page() Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-11 11:06 ` follow_page() Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 11:10 ` follow_page() Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-11 11:58 ` follow_page() Nick Piggin
2004-11-11 12:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-11 12:20 ` follow_page() Nick Piggin
2004-11-11 12:16 ` follow_page() Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-11 12:27 ` follow_page() Nick Piggin
2004-11-11 12:46 ` follow_page() Arjan van de Ven
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